Anything NOT produced in Far East Asia or Europe, or the US/North America, should be avoided at all costs...
Contractor I was doing work with, bought three dozers and had them imported from Pakistan. All three broke down in the first three hours. What was even worse, no two parts were interchangable. Instead of disecting the three dozers to make at least ONE work. the things down to even the Washers, and even the spark plugs weren't interchangable. They were all sized differently, even though we had the exact same machines.
Could we just exchange a link of track from one dozer to the other? Being they are exactly the same machine? Nope... Bolts on one track who too larger compared to the other track.
Could we just change the hydraulic pump between the two dozers? Nope.... Tubes for one were so randomly sized, and the bolts to put it into place, were too small.
The other contractor, who bought two semi-medium sized Excavators, and were imported from Saudi Arabia, you think they'd be better quality? Nope...
They broke down after a half-hour. Both of them did. One had Hydraulic tubes that ruptured out of nowhere, and the alternator blew out 5 mins afterwards, and the other's boom broke (snapped) where it connects to the bucket.
Could we change the Alternator and hose lines with the other? Nope... Each one had a different sized alternator. Not only that, they were both wired differently. Same brand, same models, same years of production...
Do not ever import equipment from a foreign country if it's in the Middle East.... Ever...
$30,000 worth of machinery (because they were bought/imported from the ME) totally garbage.
We got spare parts today, the spare parts don't even fit.... For the hose to the hydralics on the broken one, was 3 9/16 of an inch thick. The Hydraulic pump to it, will not fit any hose larger, or smaller than that. Go 3 1/2'' tubes, the pump with blast them apart. Didn't matter how much ducttape and metal pipe connectors we used. To order a custom tube 3 9/16'' in the lengths we need them for the boom/bucket... Would cost $600. Per tube because even John Deere doesn't have a mold to manufacture the tubes on the spot.
Even worse, the tube assemblies between the two vehicles, they put the tubes to what goes to what into different plug ins in both of them.
Regarding the Excavators especially, we found the bucket connection point snapped, because they configured it only to have ONE spot for a bolt that wasn't even half as thick as it needed to be, and they welded it in.
This is all brand new equipment off the assembly. It's like they assembled the equipment from a junkyard...
Even looking at the electrical wiring of one, and they changed where the wires are housed, the colors of the wires (like in one dozer they are all black wires. All of them. some even spread throughout the dozer at different lengths, even thickness very)
I would give brands, but per TOS of this site, it's against the rules to "bash" a brand. (but nothing about bashing the geographic region they are produced)
THus far, anything Middle Eastern produced Heavy Equipment wise, avoid like the plague.
